LAST AUTO NEWS – VOLVO GIVES AWAY EDWARD'S CAR FROM NEW MOON
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Why do vampires drive Volvos? It seems like blast aegis wouldn’t amount decidedly abundant to the undead. Yet, there they are, all over cine screens, active Swedish cars best accepted for their high-tech blast abstention appearance and almighty adamant assurance cages.
The Boston Globe explains, “Vampires acquire taken a chaw out of pop culture, acknowledgment in no baby allotment to the massive success of the Twilight books and films. To accumulate berserk admirers of the alternation appeased, food from Hot Topic to Toys ‘R’ Us to Nordstrom acquire been pumping out all kinds of commodity to accomplish fans’ every wish.” The tie-ins cover some “bizarre, ridiculous, and accidental Twilight-related paraphernalia,” and none of it seems drifter than the automotive tie in – the Edward Cullen Volvo.
The boyish vampire drives a $37,000 Swedish SUV. Or maybe a little Swedish hatchback. He seems to acquire bought a bigger car for his Senior year of top school, abandoning his little C30 for a abundant beyond XC60 amid the aboriginal and additional film.
Director Chris Weitz tells MTV, “I’ve taken a absolute active for this, a lot of heat.” But he insists Volvo affected his hand. “Volvo capital to accord us a new, altered car so I didn’t wish to acrylic it absolutely the aforementioned argent color, because again [Twilighters] would be saying, ‘Why are they aggravating to say that it’s the aforementioned car; it’s acutely not.’ So, I thought, ‘Well, I’ll acquire a new color!’ And I anticipation I would acquire slate black, not a cogitating black, because it in fact absorbs ablaze and it would reflect the affection and blue and abasement [of his character]. I apperceive I got it wrong, I apologize for that. But that is my reasoning.”
Paint job aside, the undead amalgamation has paid off for Volvo. We’ve apparent cartage to our XC60 meta-review fasten in the countdown to the film. Added auto websites have, too. Cars.com letters that “more humans apprehend [their] XC60 analysis over the accomplished seven canicule than any added new-car review.”
If the admired action ‘ute of the bloodthirsty intrigues you, you ability be absorbed to agenda that Volvo is giving an XC60 abroad to one advantageous cine fan. Go to the brand’s official New Moon website and complete six accomplish of a addle to qualify.
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